Re:Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz tells Michael Arrington to F-off
by mkramlich on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @04:02AM
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Every once in a while it's good to see the professional Talking Heads get called out for being talkers and not doers.
On a related note, I've noticed that many people think that if a business isn't #1 or #2 within a given field or market, that it somehow sucks. It could in reality be doing a number of things well, but especially within the professional media they like to make extreme characterizations rather than more nuanced and accurate descriptions. Third place is not last place. Not all companies have to be the "best", partly because not even everybody can agree on exactly what "best" means. Is Yahoo kicking butt in the same way and to the same degree that Apple and Google are? Probably not. Have they made a more substantive contribution to the Web so far than Arrington's company? Probably so. I think this contrast is in part what made Bartz mad.
On a related note, I've noticed that many people think that if a business isn't #1 or #2 within a given field or market, that it somehow sucks. It could in reality be doing a number of things well, but especially within the professional media they like to make extreme characterizations rather than more nuanced and accurate descriptions. Third place is not last place. Not all companies have to be the "best", partly because not even everybody can agree on exactly what "best" means. Is Yahoo kicking butt in the same way and to the same degree that Apple and Google are? Probably not. Have they made a more substantive contribution to the Web so far than Arrington's company? Probably so. I think this contrast is in part what made Bartz mad.